📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
⛑ Smart bandages can detect covid
Bandages with sensors for temperature and tension in the skin can self-monitor so that the wound heals better. The same bandage could also potentially be used to alert for Covid-symptoms.
🛢 Drastic reduction in oil spills
Amoco Cadiz, Exxon Valdez, and Deepwater Horizon. Many people remember the great oil disasters, but fewer know that both the number and amount of oil spills have decreased sharply in the world.
💉 Matt Ridley: The unexpected history and miraculous success of vaccines
At a time when the miraculous success of vaccines has transformed the battle against the pandemic it is fitting to recall the general idea, and unexpected history, behind vaccination, writes Matt Ridley, bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works.
☠ The tool that helps you identify fake news
The news evaluator tests your ability to recognize fake news and gives tips on how you can get better at source criticism.
💡 Here's to the optimists - our celebration of the crazy optimists that are changing the world
Here’s to the optimists, the dreamers, the doers, the creatives, the builders of something new. Here is our video celebrating the crazy optimists who are changing the world.
♻ Massive popular support for world governments to do more to protect the environment
Over 90 percent of the population in some of the world's most populous countries want governments to work more actively to protect animals and nature.
🌍 NASA: The Earth is greener now than it was 20 years ago
The Earth has become five percent greener in 20 years. In total, the increase in leaf area over the past two decades corresponds to an area as large as the Amazon rainforests.
🇿🇲 Water project blunt effects of climate change in Zambia
The SCRiKA Projects objective is to strengthen the adaptive capacity of rural communities to better respond to current climate variability and long-term consequences of climate change in the Kafue sub-basin in Zambia.
🕊 This is how wind and solar energy make the world more peaceful
Our move to renewable energy will make the world more peaceful. As countries become self-sufficient in energy, many incentives for conflict will diminish.